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Table of Contents<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Editor’s Playlist<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A note about this issue by your editors:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For your reading pleasure, we present Issue Number 3: \u201cAnarchy & Harmony\u201d. As is true of many writers, several editors here have writing careers of their own and work with a playlist of favorites. As a challenge we created a playlist from our \u201cwork tunes\u201d and asked writers and poets to choose a song for inspiration and send us the story. Here are the results. We love them and think you will too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the full playlist<\/a><\/span><\/span> for our Musical Challenge to Writers and Poets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio Offering<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

White Rose<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

by Sharon Knight<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“Steel is my core
Where the white rose blooms
Where the white rose blooms”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured Fiction<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tam Lin<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A Scottish Tale of Love, Redemption and Dark Magic
Retold by Yvonne Owens | Illustrated by Helena Domenic<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Noble Ladies, most excellent Gentlemen, hear now the tale of Tam Lin, a man so beloved of the Fairy Queen in the Otherworld that she would not let him go, but kept him ever beside her in the deep and hollow hills and would let him love no other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Riders in the Sky<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Written by Christopher Muscato | Illustrated by Joel Bisaillon<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Wayne glanced back at the sirens, then leapt onto the rotorcycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo, Riders aren\u2019t\u2026you\u2019re not\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the distance, sirens blared. Green lights pierced the sky. The Rider pulled on his goggles, the lenses a hellish red. He grinned and held out his hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYippie-i-ay, partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Recycling Can Be Heroic<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Written by Lannie Pihajlic<\/em> | Illustrated by Jack Ruttan<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

So Jack, they tell you the words that are forbidden by us sanitation workers?\u201d I say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind his helmet faceplate, Jack\u2019s brows pinch together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Big Two are the G word and the T word. Garbage and Trash. Those words are taboo. Never, and I mean never, say them around one of us. God forbid if someone calls any of us The Pejorative: trash man. We are sanitation workers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of Earth<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Written by Sarah Darbee | Illustrated by Paul Lee<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Time to hustle then. Jack jogged down the gangplank, slammed his fist into the button that would shut the door behind him, and then jogged across the wide circle of flattened grass that the rocket had left on landing. A tall grass filled the fields around him, with the occasionally scraggly tree trying to make its way up towards the sun, all of it a wide-open space under a cloudy blue sky. Jack took a deep breath of the thick air, probably not the healthiest but still far heartier than Mars and then threw himself down in the grass to wait for the new arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He didn\u2019t have to wait long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Blanket Girls<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Written by Priya Sridhar | Illustrated by Thana Meejinda<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t until they could speak that they perceived the blankets as belonging to them. At Grandma Odelia\u2019s next Christmas party, when the girls were four, Aunt Nikola sought them out. She was wearing jeans embroidered with rust-red tulips.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Old Willum\u2019s Final Tale<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Written by Eleanor Cooke | Illustrated by Seren Derryth<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Even as his insides were twisted up with nerves, the storyteller in Willum noted that the atmosphere was perfect. The screaming ghosts scoring bright lines across the sky, the giant fire casting flickering shadows across the worried faces of the villagers. Any other night he\u2019d have been telling them about the abandoned cities in the northern forests where the Siyala people once lived, or about the rebellion he\u2019d joined in Synti, where they\u2019d won against a terrible ruler despite being outnumbered one to one hundred. But tonight was different.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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“Siren Moon” by Sharon Knight<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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insightful \/ incite-full<\/a> by Irisanya Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bird of the Blizzard<\/a> by Chinmay Khare<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Time, Another Place<\/a> by Marge Simon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Northern Lights are Music<\/a> by Amelia Gorman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Credits this issue<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u00a9 Copyright Society for Ritual Arts, all art and words herein are used by permission of the artists, poets and writers. Therefore: Do not use without their permission. All Rights reserved. March 2025<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by<\/strong>: Lezlie Kinyon, Ph.D. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry Editor:<\/strong> Peggy Wheeler<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art Editor: <\/strong>Helena Domenic, Ph.D.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist in Residence 2025\/6:<\/strong> Jack Ruttan<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other editors and first readers for this issue are:<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sean Sanford, Priya Sridhar, Denise Dumars, Ian Gray. Sensitivity reading by Lisa M. Peppan, Morgan Pengrath<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website: <\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Web Design:<\/strong> Sharon Knight and Dara “Maverick” Napoli. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Development: <\/strong>Stephanie O\u2019Hanley.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about our staff, visit us at Editorial Staff – Coreopsis Journal of Myth and Theatre<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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